IDC WP: Saving Time and Money with Savvy Use of Flash in Automated Storage Tiering

Executive Summary

Designing a storage environment to scale for both capacity and performance used to be somewhat mutually exclusive. Armed with new discoveries on data life cycle, including a phenomenon known as "data decay," storage vendors such as EMC are tackling this problem head-on. At their disposal are newer generations of optimization and automated tiering technologies that leverage Flash/SSDs.